Slate brings psychogeography a step closer to the mainstream, highlighting software that uses word frequency to show what kinds of people are in what parts of the city:
… Read the rest “Hipster heat maps and yuppie data visualizations”Of all the data goldmines
Extreme Tech has the details on the contacts that let you see like an eagle:
… Read the rest “Telescope contact lenses are a real thing.”The center of the lens allows light to pass straight through, providing normal vision. The outside edge, however,
Nature draws an ancient lesson from America’s favorite pastime, observing how baseball pitchers reveal the evolution of human beings:
… Read the rest “Pitchers tell evolution’s story”“Throwing projectiles probably enabled
Discover Magazine tries to put the record straight, revealing that the supposedly septic-mouthed Komodo dragons have been getting a bad rap:
… Read the rest “Komodo dragons’ lethal, bone-crushing jaws not all *that* dirty.”But of all the terrible tales told about these
Awww – is a teeny tiny tinamou!
It’s from this 1868 issue of Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London found in the Biodiversity Heritage Library collection, apparently… Read the rest “Science Art: Chick and Egg of Tinamou &c, from Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, February 13, 1868”
Space.com looks hungrily to the stars… neutron stars, where a whole new form of matter makes seriously strange space spaghetti:
… Read the rest “Not solid, liquid, gas or plasma. Nuclear pasta.”A rare state of matter dubbed “nuclear pasta”
Nature bemoans the fact that America’s technological prowess is on the wane – and it’s getting really obvious that our science fleet has seen better days:
… Read the rest “A scientific mission to seek out new life and maybe some more duct tape. And baling wire.”“The community
SONG: “Inside My Eyes” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Fossil brain teaser: New study reveals patterns… Read the rest “SONG: “Inside My Eyes””
Scientific American dwells on the implications of us – inadvertently AND fully intentionally – sending messages out to aliens:
… Read the rest “Hey, @aliens! So this is where we are, and this is what we do! KThxBye!”We’ve made a few attempts at METI (messaging
Voice of America tracks something we were looking forward to here a while back – the blossoming potential of linking together Africa’s own space programs:
… Read the rest “Rocket Africa: the next pathway to space.”Observers looking
If you needed any more proof we’re actually living in the pulp future of a 1920s dime novel, explorers have just used airborne lasers to reveal a long-lost jungle city:
… Read the rest “Jungle city discovered by laser.”The discovery
The Guardian reveals a genuine government plot to infiltrate social networks with Fakey McFake IDs:
… Read the rest “Sock-puppet G-men keeping tabs on the Twitter.”A Californian corporation has been awarded a contract with United States Central Command
New Scientist gives thanks for the little things in the wake of the Big One. Studying the irradiated cells of bomb-test survivors (that is, all of us) has shown definitively that our brains… Read the rest “The Bomb proves that our brains keep growing.”
That scratch going up the left half of the picture might look like an accidental blemish, but it’s actually the first trace of a positron (a fundamental unit of antimatter) ever recorded.… Read the rest “Science Art: Positron Discovery by C.D. Anderson”
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